Durfee pulls away from Dartmouth in boys' basketball win

A 10-3 run to open the fourth quarter gave visiting Durfee some much-needed breathing room and helped offset a 35-point performance by Dartmouth's Cody Borges in the Hilltoppers' 77-64 boys' basketball victory Tuesday night.

A 10-3 run to open the fourth quarter gave visiting Durfee some much-needed breathing room and helped offset a 35-point performance by Dartmouth's Cody Borges in the Hilltoppers' 77-64 boys' basketball victory Tuesday night.

Tyree Robinson netted a team-high 34 points and freshman Nick Salmon scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half as the Hilltoppers improved to 8-6.

Robinson recorded 15 first-quarter points and got the majority of his points doing the dirty work inside.

"I expect more of myself every game," said Robinson. "I try to work hard every time out. My mother told me since I was a baby to go hard or go home."

"Tyree is always going to play hard," Durfee coach Jameson Guimond said. "He did a nice job for us. Nick Salmon scoring 14 points (actually 13) in the second half gave us another option out there."

Borges singlehandedly kept the Indians alive by draining 10 of his team's 13 3-pointers and putting up 20 points after the break.

"He hurt us," guimond said of Borges. "We played a lot of 2-3 zone and tried to contain him, but he hit some big shots."

Dartmouth (11-4) held a 26-25 lead after the first eight minutes, but was held to eight second-quarter points as Durfee grabbed a 40-34 lead at the half.

Melvin McWhorter turned a one-point Durfee lead into a 40-33 cushion with back-to-back 3-pointers with 49 seconds left in the half.

Consecutive backets by Salmon gave Durfee a 54-44 lead with 1:11 remaining in the third quarter, but Borges knocked down his seventh 3-pointer and then closed the quarter with two free throws, bringing the Indians within six at 55-49.

A three-point play by Salmon with 6:11 left gave Durfee its biggest lead to that point (65-52), but Borges, again, hit another 3-pointer to keep the Indians alive.

Borges' final long-range shot came with 1:31 left and cut the Durfee lead to 69-61, but Robinson ignited an 8-3 run to close the game with an offensive-rebound putback.

"It's a huge win for us," Guimond said. "We've come to watch Dartmouth about four times and they won every game. They are a very good team with excellent guard play and they play great man defense."

McWhorter finished with 10 points for the Hilltoppers, while Nick Simonetti added 15 for Dartmouth.